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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16040, 5 October 1915, Page 6

AND J]LECTKICAL ffEEAT MENT. ""If you are run clown in health, consult your doctor as to the benefits to be derived from . my treatment. AUGUST BRACKEBTJSH, • Certificated Medical Electrician" and Masseur. Third Floor, Imperial Buildings, Queen St. (opp. Smeeton's). 'Phone 4131. FOR SIGHT TESTING YOU CANNOT DO BETTER THAN Consult T. PEACOCK AND SON. Up-to-date OPTICIANS, 218, QUEEN STREET. ME- J. A. PEACOCK. F.S.M.C., England. * with Honours. SIGHT SPECIALIST. We have Commodious B>>oma. Beat Appliances. Ample Selection of SPECTACLES, and ensure Accurate Pitting. BICYCLE TALKS. (No. 5.) A. SCHOOLBOY EPISODE. Tim Farrell's bike was' spick and span, and proudly rode he. like a man. the envy of less lucky boys, whose fathers bought them cheaper toys. '* Giwus a... ride on yer jigger, Tim," said Jimmy Jones one day to him- " I won't go very far," he said; "just to the store for mother's bread. Now, don't be mean and get a scare, the jigger's safe -with me, I swear; I won't be more than half a tick, so hand it over: be a brick." " I'll do it for a brownie. Jones, if you'll take care to dodgo the stones." " Kight-hoJ" said Jim, and took the bike, he waved his hand and " did a mike," nor failed to push with all his might, he very soon was out of sight. Now this same —all outside show—was jerry-built.' , id Tim but know; his father bought it for a song, and took the —how very wrong! He might have maimed his boy for life, and fostered much domestic strife. Instead, poor Jim the victim was, and through no fault of his, because —the jigger broke off at th« fork, and Jim's head hit the new sidewalk. But. being new, this sidewalk had got waterlogged—the mud was Dad— and if it hadn't been for that, poor •Tim had worn his last school hat. He landed in the softest place, his head stuck in w to his face, but that "was all that came to him henceforth they called him " Lucky Jim!" But when Tim's mother heard all this, Rhe called on Jim—"rave him a kisK—her gratitude was plain to sec . - ~. "Tim wouldn't have fared so well." "' "said p'le. i So Ti"i and Jim were narked off 0«i*« within the week to SKEATEK AND "WHITE, where bikes f'twas said on every hand) ore best in all this -..,, blessed Hnd: and thero old Parrot ■.""■."-Proved'that he a contrite, thankful . --"' .* rt^ 1 £*?£!£ tc: *. bought each boy a - OTJAL7TY mount, nor troubled he : tn*. r-a"f '"' "oun* SPATES ,ZXT) WHITE, The CvcJif•'« Trou™ f. Duality •• 48, FORT STREET.